Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 20,346, Isaac Emery, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Emery, Isaac
L 20,346
CONTENTS
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No 11.232 Name
1857 Jan 4 P 5 Hospital
Prior
Isaac Emery
of York Co in the State of - Maine who was a Pr - in the Company commanded by Captain Varrows - of the Regt commanded by Col Storer - in the Massachusetts line for Troops -
9 Mo Pr - 30
Inscribed on the Roll of, Maine at the rate of 30 Dollars - Less per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of April 1832 and sent to B Palmer, Kennebec, Me
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. 60.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 - 13
$ 73.13
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. D. Sprague Clerk Book E Vol. 1 Page 18

United States of America
Maine District ss
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and held at Wennebunk within and for said District on the 7 th day of July  August A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two, before the Honorable Asahel Ware Judge of said Court.
On this tenth  seventh day of July  August aforesaid personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Isaac Emery a resident of Wennebunk in the county of York in said Maine District aged 75 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 - That he served as herein stated
In the latter part of the summer of 1777 I enlisted into Capt Joshua Norton, company and served five months, in Col Joseph Storer's Regiment; we were at Bennington in the state of Vermont - at Stillwater, and Saratoga, in the state of New York, when Genl. Burgoyne, surrendered his army to the Americans, from thence we marched to Albany in the state of New York, where I was taken sick and left several weeks after, I think about the first of January 1778, was dismissed from the service, and when I was able to walk, set out for home. In the summer of 1778 - I was drafted for the term of four months and stationed on the sea shore, at the mouth of Wennebunk River , and at Cape Porpoise, to the westward of Portland, in the state of Maine, I was in this service, something more than four months and was discharged from it late in autumn of the same year. Jeremiah Smith, now of Wennebunk post was in the same service with me - I was born in Wells (now Wennebunk ) in the year 1757 I have no record of my age - I served on my own account in the army, was not a substitute for any one I think James Titcomb was Capt. of the company from which I was drafted -
Isaac Emery
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Before
Asahel Ware } U.S. Judge for the District of Maine
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states -
Isaac Emery

State of Maine.
York ss-
December 3. 1832. Then personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace & a Justice of the Peace for the County of Kennebec a revolutionary soldier who has sworn to the above declaration before Judge Ware of the United States court on the seventh day of August last, and made oaths to the following declaration in explanation of his said declaration before Judge Ware;
That he cannot swear positively the precise time he enlisted into Capt Joshua Nason's company in the year 1777. He enlisted in Kennebec the town where he now resides then called Wells. joined Capt Nason's company and marched with it under Colonel Joseph Storer as before stated to the State of New York, he enlisted for four months, but served more than five months before he was discharged. He was at the taking of General Burgoyne's Army in October 1777, and from thence marched to Albany in the State of said New York where he being taken sick was left at the time of the discharge of most of the other soldiers of his company and Regiment, and where he remained more than one month after the expiration of the said four months for which he enlisted and was not until then discharged. He claims no less than four months in computing this service. As in fact claims five months in this service as he has stated. He believes that the War Department will be satisfied of his having performed it, but submits to the decision of that Department in reference thereto.
In reference to his services in the year 1775. as stated in his said declaration, he claims no more than four months in estimating the amount of pension he is entitled to. He does not remember and cannot state with certainty the name of the captain to whose company he was attached. He was dropped from Capt Titcomb's company of militia for the
service
John M. Nason.
On testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at the seal of office this seventh day of August 1832

I John Nussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Emery for a pension.
And that Joshua Herrick & Barnabas Palmer Esquires who took the annexed depositions of Samuel Brown Jacob Towne & John Brown, are Justices of the Peace duly qualified & that their official attestations are entitled to full faith & credit
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & seal of office this seventh day of August 1832
John Nussey Clerk
Maine District Court District Clerk's Office December 11. 1832
In testimony that George Nussey, Joshua Herrick, & Barnabas Palmer Esquires, whose genuine signatures are to the annexed depositions & to the additional declaration at the bottom of this page, are severally Justices of the Peace duly qualified & that their official attestations are entitled to full faith and credit In case hereto set my hand and seal of Office the day & year last above written
John Nussey Clerk U.S. Courts

Service at the mouth of Kennebec River and was four months in actual and constant service at the mouth of that River as stated in his said declaration before judge Wood on the 7th day of August last. It was as late as the month of October in said year 1775 before he was discharged from said service. The Captain of the company to which himself and the detachment with which he served, was not stationed with them but at some place other place as he believes along the coast.
That he resided in that part of Wells now called Kennebec at the time of this service and all his services in the revolutionary war and still resides there. That it was his intention to have it understood by his declaration before Judge Wood before alluded to. That he relinquished all claims whatever to a pension except the present and he now and hereby makes such relinquishment and states that his name is not on the pension list of any state.
Isaac Emery
State of Maine
Jan 22 d for December 7 th 1832. Transpersonally
Subscribed and sworn to this 7 th day of December 1832.
Before me George Hussey justice of the Peace
N.B. This might be referred to the above certificate S. D. Hussey Clerk
Dec 7 1832

City.
Revocation
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Isaac Emery
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Act: June 7" 32"
Index: — Vol. 2 , Page 124
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Arch. 10-98, Char. Emery

Post Office, House of Representatives W. S.,
Washington, D. C., March 2 d , 1898
Hon. H. Clay Evans Chairman of Pension
Dear Sir
Will you please give me the Revolutionary Record of Isaac Emery? He drew a pension the last three years of his life and died =I think= in 1834 or 5, in Kennebecport York Co., Maine. =Kennebecport was named Anson
Very Respectfully
Charles Emery # 208 Ind Ave. N.W., Washington D. C.

4695. Isaac Emery
No 52
Adm C 9 mts $30.—
B. Palmer Esq Kennebec Me

I Samuel Brown of Kennebec in the county of York & State of Maine aged sixty six years do testify & say that I am well acquainted with Isaac Emery of said Kennebec never have been since I was a boy.
I very well recollect when I was quite young of said Isaac Emery, Job Emery, Stephen Fitcomb, Benjamin Fitcomb & others being stationed to guard the shore from Mouson River to Kennebec Point. I well recollect of my father belonging to said company and of the above named person calling for him. I will recollect of said Isaac Emery & my brother John Brown being drafted into Capt. Joshua Mason's company of militia and marched off to the westward.
Samuel + Brown mark
Witness John Herrick 3
State of Maine
York ss. August 7-1832-
Sworn & subscribed before me
Joshua Herrick Justice of 3 the Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Samuel Brown & consider him a credible witness
Joshua Herrick Justice of 3 the Peace
over

I Samuel Brown of Kennebec aged sixty eight years testify and declare that I am the same Saml Brown who signed and made oath to the truth of my deposition taken before Joshua Herrick Esquire on the 7th day of August last 1882. as evidence for Isaac Emery of said Kennebec a revolutionary soldier in support of his claims to a pension for services performed in the year 1775 at Kennebec Point at the Mouth of the Mousam River. Maine -
My Father Philip Brown - was a soldier of the same company with the said Isaac Emery I know that that the said Emery was a soldier in the said service the whole of the summer and a part of the Autumn of 1775. That part of the company to which Isaac Emery and my other belonged and stationed at Kennebec point were in actual & constant service during the season. The head quarters of the detachment was at or near the mouth of the Mousam River and within about one mile of my fathers house where I then resided, and resided for many years after. Several members of the detachment besides the above mentioned Isaac Emery resided in the same neighborhood with my Father and frequently were permitted to go to their own houses, but not for stay and when I say that said in my said deposition - " I will recollect my father belonged to the said company and the above named person calling for him ". I meant only that he (Emery) living at a greater distance from the Point where the detachment was stationed passed by my fathers house to the Guard when on a short visit home and in this way called for my Father. Who sometimes was permitted to leave the point with the said Emery - at the same time. I was frequently at the point while the detachment were stationed there. The object was to guard the sea coast and prevent plunder by the enemy, hovering on the coast, but I then understood and have always understood that the company was - - over -

was liable to be directed to any other place and I have often heard my father say that it was uncertain where they might be sent or where they might be when discharged. It was reported at the time of the draft was made that the soldiers were to be sent to Canada but they were not — and were stationed as before stated — I have always known Isaac Emery from my boyhood — and feel confident in the correctness of what I have stated. I was at the time of the service above alluded to twelve years old or more. I felt a great interest the passing events of the time and it left a very strong impression upon my mind. I was not in any service myself in the revolutionary war My brother John who was older than myself was at the taking of Genl. Burgoyne's Army. My Mother died when I was about nineteen years of age. Samuel + Brown Mark Witnesses John Herrick
3
State of Maine
York ss December 7- 1832 Then personally appeared Samuel Brown of Kennebec and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed and I hereby certify that the said Samuel Brown is a credible witness —
Barabas Palmer Justice of the Peace

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John Brown Deposition for Grace Emery -

Isaac Dowe of Kennebec in the County of York & State of Maine aged seventy four years, do testify & say that I am well acquainted with Isaac Emery of said Kennebec - That in the year 1775 said Isaac Emery was in a company of Militia for the term of four months for the purpose of guarding the sea shore from Mouson River to Kennebec point - we were some time together - I recollect very well of Nathan Mitchell being with us - It is my impression that Capt Hubbard commenced the detachment for guarding the shore near the mouth of Kennebec River, who afterwards marched to Cambridge in Massachusetts
State of Maine York ss. Aug 7 th 1832
sworn to and subscribed before me
Joshua Hensick Justice of the peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Isaac Dowe and he is an credible witness
Joshua Hensick Justice of the peace
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I John Brown of Kennebec in the county of York and State of Maine aged twenty five years testify and declare that I am acquainted with Isaac Emery of Kennebec in the county of York - said Isaac Emery was a soldier in Capt. Joshua Norton's company of Col. Thomas Regiment raised for four months in the summer of 1777 - and was in the whole of that company of the surrender of Genl. Burgoyne Army to the Americans - I was myself a soldier in the same company and knew the said Isaac Emery the whole time - The said Emery was left sick at Albany in the State of New York at the time of the discharge of the rest of the Regiment. The said Isaac Emery has always resided in the same town with me -
State of Maine
his John X Brown mark -
York ss. August 7-1832-
Sworn & subscribed before me
Benjamin Palmer Jus. of the Peace
I certify that I am acquainted personally with John Brown & he is a credible witness. Benjamin Palmer Jus. of the Peace